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In years to come, football fans will refer to the Matt O’Riley episode at Celtic as a textbook case of how a football club should conduct its business.  An English-born player, playing for an English club, was signed for £1.5m and sold for £26m, with add-ons hopefully to come.

Celtic have the luxury of being able to recruit and develop young talent without risking their business model.  Signings will not all be as successful as Matt, but they don’t need to be.  Look at any of the great teams from smaller countries who go deep into European competition, they have things in common.

They recruit lots of young talent, loan them out or play them in their first team.  They develop all of these players, very few will not improve and appreciate in value.  Those not good enough for the first team are sold, more often than not at a profit.  The successes are usually sold quickly, with ever-more invested in the recruitment process.

Salzburg won 10 Austrian titles in a row before losing out to Sturm Graz last season.  Even with one of the most respected operations in the business, football can be unpredictable, but you can hardly get a bet on them winning this term (a winning bet would earn a 20% return, more than a high interest account, but not much more).

As you and I discussed recently, clubs should always be ready to trade.  It’s easier to love the model than to get too attached to the players (except Kyogo).  Best wishes to Matt on the south coast.

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  1. McPhail Bhoy on

    Former Rangers chairman Dave King, who is the club’s largest single shareholder, says there is “no truth whatsoever” in reports investors are keen to buy a stake in Rangers (Scottish Sun), external.

     

     

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    From the BBC Sports gossip column, so that’s Ran2gers being taken over then

  2. David66 on

    Good morning all celts across the globe.

     

     

    So a few players we were linked with have went elsewhere and a few are highballing us.

     

     

    Come on Celtic get to work, the manager wants them, so go get them.

     

     

    Whether it’s 9, 10, 11 million go get them.

     

     

    You do not employ a manager of Brendans ilk for him not to get players on big transfers plus salaries and yes it’s a gamble but 1 we need and can afford to take.

     

     

    I am quite sure our board know what they are doing by leaving it to the last few days of window.

     

     

     

    D :)

  8. scullybhoy on

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  9. The Blogger Formerly Known As GM on

    And the first complaint about not having an option to buy is from…………………….

  13. scullybhoy on

    Celtic probably shouldn’t have been there.

     

     

    They had finished eighth in the league and gone out of the Scottish Cup in the fourth round.

     

     

    Their on-pitch credentials to be one of the top eight sides in Britain in the summer of 1953 were questionable at best.

     

     

    Yet, an invitation to join Rangers, Hearts, Hibernian, Arsenal, Manchester United, Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur in a tournament celebrating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II landed on the Parkhead doormat.

     

     

    The scene outside a pub in Coatbridge on 20 May was perhaps a clue to the organisers’ thinking.

     

     

    “On the day of the Coronation Cup final, no fewer than 30 buses of Celtic fans made the trip to Hampden Park,” remembers legendary former commentator Archie Macpherson, watching on as a teenager at the time.

     

     

    By then, it was clear Celtic were no longer there to make up the numbers and fill the stands of host city Glasgow.

     

     

    A few hours later, more than 117,000 fans were poised, packed into Hampden, eager to see a coronation of a different kind; their team crowned the best of Britain.

  14. Darwin on

    A bit of time on my hands this morning and just catching-up on all the associated articles on CQN – very entertaining!

     

     

    The one that tells us James Forrest is called into the Scotland squad had me thinking why Jamsie did not follow Callum’s lead and call it a day with the national team. Both have similar-ish records – Jamsie (499 Games – 108 goals) Callun(509 Games inc Notts Co – 80 goals)

     

     

    Callum’s achilles tendinopathy at the end of last season must have been uppermost in his thoughts when he made his decision and he’s started this season brilliantly with two goals already, matching his tally for the whole of the last campaign.

     

     

    James is two years older than Callum and has been unluckier with various injuries . Brendan, as he did during his last spell, has rejuvinated him and at this moment he is first-choice in his position. Why then not follow Callum’s lead and retire from the international scene and concentrate on making more records at Celtic? He was totally unused in the Euro debacle and to me that seemed a natural end to that part of his career. A bit of a poser really!

  15. Gene on

    Darwin

     

    James is making sure Clarke has a scapegoat to deflect any criticism from the sour faced one.

     

     

    alwaysthinkingofothersCSC

     

     

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  18. eratic on

    Welcome young Alex

     

     

    Wonder how his name is pronounced.

     

     

    Vale

     

    or

     

    Vallee

     

     

    I’ll plonk for Vallee…….but yet again languages where never my strong point !!🤪

  19. Turkeybhoy on

    “I have every confidence that the Celtic Board will deliver on their promise to spend every penny taken in,to give the manager the team he wants”

     

    Signed

     

    John Chamberlain

     

    Great Grandson of Neville Chamberlain

  21. Chairbhoy on

    Welcome to Celtic Alex, it will he very interesting to see what the new loanee brings, note the last paragraph…

     

     

    Valle: “I’m very excited, it’s a great opportunity to come to this historic club. They have given me a lot of confidence to come here, so I will try to do my best to return the confidence. I’ve heard a lot about the fans and and what we can experience in this stadium, so I’m just excited to see it in real life.

     

     

    “The manager gave me a lot of confidence to come here. He told me that he has watched some games in Barca and Levante, so I’m really happy to be here and looking forward to training with the team.

     

     

    “I would say this way of playing is the best for my style and for what I like. I’ve been learning it in the Barca academy, so I’m looking forward to playing.”

     

     

    Hail Hail

  25. FAVOURITE UNCLE on

    ALEX BYRNE.

     

     

    When he was good he was very good but when he was ……………………………….

  29. celtic40me on

    CHAIRBHOY on 28TH AUGUST 2024 10:24 AM

     

     

    Well done to Brendan for selling the club to the young man – It’s good that he understands the Celtic traditions before he comes isn’t it.

     

     

    As I said previously I’d rather we use our resources to develop our own players than other club’s (like we’ve done so successfully in Matt’s case) and I think it suggests a bit of a lack of forward planning given we could be looking out for 2 left backs next summer for the CL qualifiers. But he fills a gap in the squad for this season and you’ll be happy Brendan is getting his own players in. But I would have thought he’s a bit on the young side to fit the profile you’re after?

  31. bognorbhoy on

    He hails from Barcelona , his name is Alex Valle

     

    He came through Parkheads gates to play the Celtic way

  32. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    I’ve always detested the transfer window and the effect it has on our support.

     

     

    Here we are in the final stretch and we’re urging the club to buy big and provide ready first team non-project players. And we’re urging just pay them what they want for

     

     

    Arne Engels

     

    Mateusz Bogusz

     

    & Austin Trusty

     

     

    that nobody on here had heard of or seen play before the window opened. It’s like the hunger for Celebrity endorsed Water among Gen Zs

  35. ziggydoc1 on

    V in Spanish is often pronounced as a B. LL as a Y, mostly. Not sure about surnames. Hope the lad does well.

  40. scullybhoy on

    Dara O’Shea £15m

     

    Adam Idah £9.5m

     

    Chiedozie Ogbene £8.0m

     

    Sammie Szmodics £11m

     

     

    Ireland squad shaping up nicely.

  41. Chairbhoy on

    CELTIC40ME @ 10:58 AM

     

     

    “…But I would have thought he’s a bit on the young side to fit the profile you’re after?

     

     

    Yes, not even close to my choice of player…

     

     

    He’s obviously a stop gap, hopefully a good stop gap, hopefully he will be a big uplift at left back.

     

     

    The issues for me would be

     

     

    Loanee – OK with an option to buy, but we don’t

     

     

    We needed a quality, experienced left back in at the beginning of the transfer window

     

     

    We have Greg Taylor out of contract next year and Alex going back to Barca’ or whererver

     

     

    That means time, energy and resources expended once again on a left fullback position.

     

     

    Still, Alex will be an asset in the UCL games and that is huge as things stand…

     

     

    Hail Hail

  42. The Blogger Formerly Known As GM on

    I’ll chip in my tuppence worth: I know Mallorca is pronounced Myorca and Pollenca is pronounced Poyenca. 🤔

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